LAWMA launches massive clean-up of Lagos–Badagry Expressway

…Targets Illegal Dump Sites

By Olasunkanmi Akoni

The Lagos Waste Management Authority (LAWMA) has commenced a large-scale bulk waste evacuation exercise at Alaba Rago along the Lagos–Badagry Expressway, aimed at clearing heaps of refuse defacing the busy highway corridor.

The initiative marks the beginning of a renewed environmental sanitation drive to restore cleanliness and safeguard public health across major transport routes in Lagos State.

Managing Director of LAWMA, Muyiwa Gbadegesin, said the authority’s operations team had deployed heavy-duty waste carriers, loaders, and support personnel to clear identified illegal dump sites in the Alaba Rago axis.

Gbadegesin noted that the intervention forms part of a structured corridor-cleaning strategy designed to tackle recurring indiscriminate waste disposal and environmental degradation along one of Lagos’ most heavily trafficked routes.

“Following the clean-up at Alaba Rago, the exercise will extend to Okokomaiko and the median around Lagos State University, both identified as priority locations due to heavy pedestrian and vehicular activity, as well as persistent sanitation challenges,” he said.

He added that the clean-up operation would subsequently advance from Agric Bus Stop toward Mile 2, ensuring a systematic restoration of environmental standards along the entire Lagos–Badagry Expressway corridor.

The LAWMA boss emphasised that the evacuation exercise is not a one-off intervention but part of a sustained sanitation framework anchored on long-term strategies, including continuous monitoring of cleared sites, stakeholder engagement with traders and residents, intensified public sensitisation campaigns, and strict enforcement to prevent a recurrence of illegal dumping.

He reiterated the authority’s commitment to maintaining a cleaner and healthier Lagos and urged residents, traders, and motorists to desist from indiscriminate refuse disposal, particularly along highways and road medians.

Gbadegesin warned that surveillance and enforcement operations would be strengthened to sustain cleanliness along the corridor, protect public health, and preserve the environmental integrity of the state’s critical transport routes.

“Any environmental law offender will be arrested and prosecuted in accordance with extant environmental laws of the state,” he said.

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